Curatoké: Performance Curators Academy - Open Call for Emerging Curators until 25 Mar!
Taipei Performing Arts Center in collaboration with National Culture and Arts Foundation is pleased to launch Curatoké: Performance Curators Academy, a new initiative and professional development program for emerging curators!
Daniel Blanga Gubbay (Artistic Co-director, Kunstenfestivaldesarts), Jeff Khan (Creative Director, Asia TOPA), Nayse López (Artistic Director, Panorama Festival), Low Kee Hong (Creative Director, Factory International), Rucera Seethal (Artistic Director, National Arts Festival South Africa), and Faith Tan (Director, Programming, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore) (Listed alphabetically by the last name) have been invited as the mentors for this program! The emerging curators will have an opportunity to learn from these mentors through a 10-day intensive program as well as participation in the events of ADAM Gathering and the programs of Taipei Arts Festival.
The open call will be closed on 25 March. We look forward to receiving your application!
- Application Guidelines：DOWNLOAD HERE
*Please note that this English guidelines apply to non-Taiwanese applicants based in Taiwan or other countries.
- Application Submission: CLICK HERE
- Submission Deadline: 25 March 2024, at 23:59 Taipei time (GMT+8)
- Program Date: 23 August – 1 September 2024
If you have any questions, please contact us at curatoke@tpac-taipei.org.
Mentors
Daniel Blanga Gubbay
Artistic Co-director, Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Daniel Blanga Gubbay is a performing art curator and writer. Since 2018 he serves as artistic co-director of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. He has worked as educator and independent curator in performances and public programs, among which: The Telepathic School (Ural Biennale, Yekaterinburg 2021), Yogurt and Other Spaces of Labour (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut 2021, together with Zeynep Öz), Four Rooms (online, 2020), Sonic Dawn (Homo Novus, Riga 2019), Can Nature Revolt? (Manifesta, Palermo 2018), The School of Exceptions (Santarcangelo, 2016).
He graduated with Giorgio Agamben at Università Iuav di Venezia and holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Palermo and Valencia. He was head of the department of Arts and Choreography at the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts between 2015-2019, where he still teaches. Recent writings appeared in South as a State of Mind Athens (Talking About the Weather), e-flux (Where Do Exhibitions Go After their Death?), Mada Masr مدى مصر Cairo (Dance Under Cover of a Fictional Rhythm), Performance Journals New York (The Movement as Living Non-Body). Further recent presentations include: Politics of Co-Imagination (Tangier), Knowing the Unknown (Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki) and Prophecies Without Content (American University of Beirut).
Photo©Bea Borgers
Jeff Khan
Creative Director, Asia TOPA
Jeff Khan is a writer, curator and arts leader based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). Currently the Creative Director of Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts, Jeff works at the intersection of performance, dance, visual art and sound. Previously, Jeff was Artistic Director & CEO at Performance Space, Sydney (2011-2022) where he curated and oversaw the annual Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, as well as a year-round program of artist development, residencies, and international exchange. Jeff’s curatorial work is focused on the Asia Pacific engaged with exigent issues in the region, from queer and feminist conversations to artists’ responses to environmental, political, and intercultural conversations. Jeff has previously held positions and Guest Curatorships at the Next Wave Festival, Gertrude Contemporary, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. He has participated on juries and assessment panels for the Taishin Art Award (Taiwan); Create NSW; the Australia Council for the Arts; Arts Northern Rivers, and many more.
Photo©Liz Ham
Nayse López
Artistic Director, Panorama Festival
Since 2005, she is the artistic director of Panorama Festival and has been guest curator in many other projects and has a long career as a speaker on cultural management, art and media and has participated in hundreds of international events. In 2020, she directed the Panorama Luto, a live tribute for the victims of covid-19 in Brazil that lasted 51 hours live on YouTube and brought together more than 300 artists and activists reading texts about mourning, art and freedom. In 2021, she was the artistic director of the international platform Panorama Raft, and in partnership with 17 international Institutions, coproduced 15 projects to be seen online in pandemic times. In 2022/2023, she was artistic director of Panorama 30 years, a celebration of the three decades of the festival. She is now preparing the 2023/2024 edition of Panorama, and guest scholar at the online research project La Escuela and guest curator at Lyon Biennale 2025.
Low Kee Hong
Creative Director, Factory International
Low Kee Hong is Creative Director at Factory International, housed in their new home, the landmark cultural venue Aviva Studios in the heart of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Kee Hong oversees the Curatorial team at Factory International and alongside John McGrath, the organisation’s Artistic Director & Chief Executive, works to develop the artistic programme for Factory International and Manchester International Festival (MIF) and will lead on the Festival’s programme from 2025 onwards.
Appointed to the role in early 2022, Kee Hong was previously Head of Theatre, Performing Arts at the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in Hong Kong, responsible for formulating the district’s artistic direction and strategies for Contemporary Performance, Dramatic and Theatre Arts. Earlier roles include Artistic Director and General Manager of the Singapore Arts Festival, Founding Director and General Manager of the Singapore Biennale and Associate Artistic Director of TheatreWorks (Singapore).
Kee Hong also oversees the work of the Creative Engagement programme which brings opportunities for people from all backgrounds, ages and from all corners of the city year-round; the international department collaborating with venues, festivals and other cultural organisations globally, whose financial and creative input helps to make MIF and Factory International projects possible and ensures that work made in Manchester goes on to be seen around the world.
Rucera Seethal
Artistic Director, National Arts Festival South Africa
Rucera Seethal is artistic director of the multi-disciplinary National Arts Festival, South Africa since 2020. She has been programme manager at the Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia Johannesburg for six years, responsible for the performing arts portfolio across the Southern African region, and for co-developing and co-adjudicating its Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation regional grant programme. Between 2004 and 2011, she was artistic director and production manager at Chimurenga, the award-winning arts, culture and politics magazine. She has sat on several national and international adjudication panels, programme selection teams and webinars. Three current projects include: Listening Bodies, a podcast series on African dance and performance artists, seeking to enable a more sensitive and informed reception to performance productions from Africa and disseminating practice reference to African practitioners; Charter, a values-based framework of collective accountability, transparency and solidarity aimed at creating safer, more enabling conditions for women and LGBTIQ+ people in the South African arts sector; and Portals Next, an open-ended enquiry into transcontinental curation, presentation and making situated in independent artist-led entities. More generally, she is interested in futuring, feminist and funga perspectives, and currently lives in Johannesburg.
Photo©Fidel Ntone Edjabe
Faith Tan
Director, Programming, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
Faith Tan has over 20 years of programming, producing, management and international networking experience in the performing arts. She was Head of Programme Development at Dance House Helsinki, Finland in 2020, where she co-initiated a commission programme for new dance productions by Finnish dancemakers. She is currently the Director of Programming in Singapore’s national arts centre, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. Under her direction, Esplanade’s da:ns festival and series in Singapore co-produced productions by world renowned artists, commissioned and championed new work from significant Asian dancemakers, supported the practice of dramaturgs for dance, presented a large public participatory programme, as well as an artist lab and seminar workshops. Tan’s work at Esplanade included programming music for the Mosaic Music Festival from 2005 – 2012. She is a founding member of the Asian Network for Dance (AND+) and serves on panels for grants from the National Arts Council in Singapore, as well as on panels and juries for international dance platforms. Tan holds a Masters degree in Arts and Cultural Management.
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